If you are startup looking for a little funding and guidance you might want to check into one of the incubator program like TechStars. Nestled just outside of Denver in Boulder, Colorado the TechStars program is in its second year and still accepting h…

Christ.

500 business users is pretty good. I’ve seen companies bought for less. In fact, with that many users, some companies wouldn’t need an ‘exit’. For example, if you were selling say, mid-tier software for $1000/yr license, that would be $500k revenue which isn’t too shabby for a two person company.

I’m just curious why a company that is 2-years+ into development would take seed funding designed more for companies in a much earlier stage.

“Really? You’d like to get as much money as a mediocre consultant could make in a month or two for a significant chunk of your company? What’s the point of taking enough money to pay 2 maybe months rent, and then have to go back and beg for another round? Half the YC startups could have saved the equity and just worked their day job for another month or so.”

OK. You go your way, and we’ll go ours. Since you’ve opted not to identify yourself, we can safely assume you have little to be proud of so far, and little evidence of your own success in your entrepreneurial endeavors. We’ve been quite satisfied with the value for the equity we gave to YC. You’re welcome to check back with us in a year or two, and see how we’re doing. I won’t be able to compare our relative success to yours, since we have no idea who you are, but I’m sure you’re capable of making a reasonable assessment on your own. Feel free to email me and gloat when you have your exit and it’s larger than ours (or smaller, but the amount of equity that we gave to YC makes all the difference and you end up richer than me by a few points). I promise I’ll be a gracious loser. Until then, of course, I’m gonna keep being smugly satisfied by how well things are going for us, and pleased as punch about the folks we’ve got pushing for our success.

Really? You’d like to get as much money as a mediocre consultant could make in a month or two for a significant chunk of your company? What’s the point of taking enough money to pay 2 maybe months rent, and then have to go back and beg for another round? Half the YC startups could have saved the equity and just worked their day job for another month or so.

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- omnisio
- mixwit
- mighty quiz

To the nay sayer’s our there - don’t be too quick to judge and dismiss, even a waterfall the size of Niagara Falls started with just one drop..

I’m using RescueTime, and if you’re the sort of person who is interested in how your time is spent then it’s very valuable. In my case I specifically wanted to spend MORE time on one particular activity, and RescueTime helped me focus on doing this. It would have been equally effective if I’d been trying to cut back in some area.

RescueTime could also be effective as a simple way of monitoring what your computer is being used for when you’re not at it (although you ideally need to be able to break down the hourly data in order to do this).

I like MightyQuiz, despite the overwhelming (and sometimes ridiculous) North American bias in the questions.